I don’t watch much reality tv but I flippin’ love #Ambulance Amazing, dedicated people working under stressful circumstances and the multifarious stories of those they help. Humbling.
What a beautiful bird.
Suggestion: the Bank of England could announce that it is going to copy the designs from Euro banknotes "to prepare the ground". Couldn't happen of course, but it would be fun watching all the Brexiters explode.
View of the nave of Norwich Cathedral from the west end looking east. The ash grey medieval arcading is articulated by a striking vaulted ceiling pinned with stone bosses that seem to go on for ever
📷 Taken with the tilt shift lens: The magnificent Romanesque nave at Norwich Cathedral is crowned with a later vaulted ceiling that has one of the most remarkable series of bosses depicting scenes from creation to the last judgement.
The National Theatre will stream The Importance of Being Earnest starring Ncuti Gatwa for free. The performance from the winter 2024/25 run will be on YouTube from 12 March. A watch-along premiere will be at 7pm GMT, during which viewers will have the opportunity to interact through chat/polls. 👜
Good morning my latest monoprint from the sunflower field.
The emergence of Alice and her anticipatory pinwheel for the winds of change:
Something badly wrong here for cocoa farmers in Ghana 😔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Slowly packing and moving smaller items up to my new (temp) abode, feeling overwhelmed at all I have yet to do and lovely friend invites me for a roast dinner. Utter life enhancing bliss, bless her #littleactsofkindness
Thanks, it’s on the listen list 👏
A sea of Coventry City Sky Blue flags at Wembley
Sure has… 21st April 2024 FA Cup semi final, one of the finest comebacks ever, denied by VAR; Coventry City v Manchester United 🩵
My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.
Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
One down… and no, I’ve not forgotten.
Tory peer quits after Lords probe into PPE deals www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It doesn’t escape me that these are named after a woman and a teenage girl. It does not escape me that medical misogyny continues to kill.
A full colour illustration of spring nature including blossom, bluebells, cowslips, catkins, willow, a daffodil, snowdrops, wood anemones, and buttercups.
I now have a shop again!
tamzincavendish.co.uk
It has art prints, including ones with FSC certified frames.
There are hoodies and T-shirts made with 50% recycled materials.
Plus notebooks, bags, etc.
So my work is now available worldwide again.
#Wildflowers #Nature #Art
Helloooo @grovedigger.bsky.social read your most recent blog, thank you. Love and luck with new ventures and improved headspace 🤯
So I went to the tip today, second time this week - always an experience. Because I didn’t sort stuff before I went I ended up laying it out on the walkway, one of the lovely blokes told me ‘it isn’t a market y’know’ but soon disproved when lady in the adjacent car had two of m’pots for potatoes! 🎉
Ha! Thanks George. I am practicing serenity but am sorely tested.
Started shifting stuff from my home to my new temporary abode. The books are going first 📚 Then the art 🖼️
This prole regularly endures the three o’clocker wee-time too. I must have a listen 😉
We are looking at a close up of a glass panel with a daffodil and a moth on the side of its stem.
We are looking at a close up of a glass panel with a painted thistle on it.
We are looking at a stained glass panel with painted depictions of a daffodil, wren and clover.
There's also a few nods to the nature of Yorkshire too (including York’s very own Tansy Beetle)!
Work is being undertaken by the amazing York Glaziers Trust who kindly invited us along to see how work is progressing.
Wonderful work. Did they also make the original drawings?
Birmingham's Midland Hotel hosted the Conservative MP Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech in 1968 but, earlier than this, Labour's Oswald Mosley broke the Chamberlains' grip on power in 1929 before creating his new fascist party. By 1931, Birmingham people had violently driven him out of the city.
A photo realistic close-up of a mixed selection of biscuits, including chocolate fingers, chocolate digestives, and a lemon puff
The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Biscuits ’
(Yes, it is a painting - from First Picture Book, 1970)
I’m afraid I generally avoid BBC news in any form (strong F*rage aversion) apart from glimpses, through parted fingers, at the app but @rosatkins.bsky.social commentary is sometimes posted there which I will watch + anything by other skilled reporters. Sorry, a simple yes or no would have sufficed 😂
A postcard of a snowy scene with small figures in the foreground by Pieter Bruegel the elder titled Massacre of the Innocents. Can be seen at NT Upton House when the gallery is open.
Daily reminder on my fridge door.
Me too. So good.
Sometimes I do tiny art in Cornwall, on found objects such as ceramics, pebbles and pieces of brick - here are a few from a couple of years ago: Porthmeor, Porthgwarra, Mousehole and Lamorna #bsnm #traditionalart #cornwall #artist #stpiransday
It’s on the bbc news app
A little bit of extra light for a Wednesday morning: St. Mary's Abbey in York.
